Christmas fun 12/20-21

This past weekend we drove up to Flagstaff for a little winter fun.  We got there Saturday and met up with our friends the Powells for lunch and some snow fun.  The only snow we could find was just on the side of the road in some trees, but the kids didn't care- they had a blast throwing snowballs, picking up rocks and sticks and just exploring in the trees.  Norah was starting to get sick and she actually fell asleep in my arms while we watched the boys play.  

After all the kids were throughly worn out we headed back to the hotel and met up with Grammy Sherry.  We cleaned up and then went to dinner.  Both kids were up most of the night coughing and Norah had a mild fever.

The next morning we rallied and went to the North Pole Experience.  It was a blast.  So much fun for the little ones!  We hopped on a trolley which took us through a "portal" to the North Pole and Santa's workshop.  The kids got to see some of Santa's first toys, his original workbench, and then got to help the elves make some toys.  They then got to send the toys through the factory to make them ready for Santa to load on his sleigh.  After all that hard work they had cookies and hot chocolate in Mrs Claus' bakery.  Then they had a little lecture in Elf Academy, then wrote letters to give directly to Santa.  We got to see Santa's sleigh, then Santa himself!  It was a lot of fun and we can't wait to do it again next year!

More Christmas fun

On Saturday (dec 13th), I took the kids to the Tempe boat light parade and fireworks.  

On Sunday the 14th, we started the day with a brunch at the country club with Santa.

Then we went home, changed our clothes and went to Conors school for a little Christmas fun there.  They had a petting zoo and a little train ride.

We also decorated cookies to take to the neighbors... Still cleaning sprinkles off the floor... :-)

Yesterday Conors pre-k class had a little Christmas party.  They ate pizza, had a book exchange and decorated cookies.  It was fun to go and just watch them for a couple of hours.

We finally got our advent candles set up and we caught up on the story last night.

Photo dump

Conors Christmas Advent program

Conor's little preschool had an adorable little advent program on Friday.  The kids all came out and sang several songs and showed off their nativity artwork.  Then we had a little photo shoot with some of his friends.  Seriously cute...

Christmas fun 12/6/14

Today was a busy but fun day.  We started out by going to a work Christmas party at another agents home.  We had food and a fun gift exchange.  Santa also came and joined the party!  The kids were in awe... 

Then after a short nap we packed up and went to the light parade.  We camped out to save our spot for 2 hours before the parade even started.  We met up with Conor's friend Leighton and his family so the kids had fun while waiting.  We ate pizza and just relaxed.  The parade was pretty impressive-the kids loved it!  The last picture of Norah is when she saw Santa on the last float... Priceless...